Posts tagged: Brian Schatz

With President Barack Obama’s approval rating hovering in the low 40s, and this year’s big Senate elections playing out on a Republican-friendly map, you won’t see many Democrats in key races touting their association with him. It’s a different story...

Bring out the cots! A group of Senate Democrats will stage an all-night session of the Senate tonight to discuss a matter the party has no plans to touch legislatively in this election year: Climate change. The group, led by...

President Barack Obama earlier this month plaintively decried the personal element that has loomed as an added hurdle — as if one were needed — in Washington’s “fiscal cliff” morass. Commenting on his fruitless dickering for a budget deal with Republicans, he said, with...

Updated at 3:30 pm EST Something has happened to President Barack Obama’s approval rating since Election Day, in the midst of an apparently intractable dispute with the House’s Republicans over taxes and spending and in the aftermath of one of...